bleacht

English

Verb

bleacht

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of bleach

Anagrams

• Bachtel

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish blicht, from Old Irish mlicht, from Proto-Celtic *mlixtus (compare Welsh blith), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ml̥ǵtu-, from *h₂melǵ- (compare English milk, Latin mulgeō (“to milk”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲlʲaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

bleacht m (genitive singular bleachta)

1. milk, milk yield

Declension

Declension of bleacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative bleacht vocative a bhleacht genitive bleachta dative bleacht forms with the definite article singular nominative an bleacht genitive an bhleachta dative leis an mbleacht don bhleacht

Synonyms

• bleán
• bleánach
• crúthach
• lacht
• táirgeacht
• tál

Adjective

bleacht (genitive singular feminine bleachta, plural bleachta)

1. milch
2. copious, abundant

Declension

Declension of bleacht

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	bleacht	bhleacht	bleachta; bhleachta2
vocative	bhleacht		bleachta
genitive		bleachta	bleachta	bleacht
dative	bleacht; bhleacht1	bhleacht	bleachta; bhleachta2
Comparative	níos bleachta
Superlative	is bleachta

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of bleacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bleacht	bhleacht	mbleacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bleacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 blicht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language